Research report 02 / Weekly funding and acquisitions / Weekly

Superpower AI Capital Ledger

Weekly disclosed AI funding and acquisition totals, transaction counts, stage mix, valuations, and named investors.

Archived snapshotv11Aug 31, 2026
Latest week
$14.5B

13 transactions beginning 2026-08-24

Disclosed value
$200.6B

All tracked USD funding and acquisitions

Transactions
32

26 disclose USD value

Median disclosed
$315M

Across valued transactions

Interactive figureCapital ledger
CSV JSON
Data status200,626,300,000 verified records across 6 periods

Each bar is one week beginning monday (utc). Colored segments show how verified observations are distributed across series.

Verified observationHover or focus any mark for exact valuesLast updated Aug 31, 2026

Version ledger

Frozen public editions

Each edition preserves the records, method, sources, and downloads available at publication time.

  1. v53 / latestOct 13, 2026120 records / 40 sources

    +2 records; updated Latest week, Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 120 records.

  2. v52Oct 12, 2026118 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 118 records.

  3. v51Oct 11, 2026117 records / 40 sources

    updated Latest week, Disclosed value. The frozen snapshot contains 117 records.

  4. v50Oct 10, 2026117 records / 40 sources

    +4 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 117 records.

  5. v49Oct 9, 2026113 records / 40 sources

    +5 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 113 records.

  6. v48Oct 8, 2026108 records / 40 sources

    +4 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 108 records.

  7. v47Oct 7, 2026104 records / 40 sources

    +2 records; updated Latest week, Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 104 records.

  8. v46Oct 6, 2026102 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Latest week, Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 102 records.

  9. v45Oct 5, 2026101 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Latest week, Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 101 records.

  10. v44Oct 4, 2026100 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Disclosed value, Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 100 records.

  11. v43Oct 3, 202699 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 99 records.

  12. v42Oct 2, 202698 records / 40 sources

    +4 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 98 records.

  13. v41Oct 1, 202694 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Disclosed value, Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 94 records.

  14. v40Sep 30, 202693 records / 40 sources

    +3 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 93 records.

  15. v39Sep 29, 202690 records / 40 sources

    +3 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 90 records.

  16. v38Sep 28, 202687 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Latest week, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 87 records.

  17. v37Sep 26, 202686 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 86 records.

  18. v36Sep 25, 202685 records / 40 sources

    +2 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 85 records.

  19. v35Sep 24, 202683 records / 40 sources

    +3 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 83 records.

  20. v34Sep 23, 202680 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Latest week, Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 80 records.

  21. v33Sep 22, 202679 records / 40 sources

    +2 records; updated Latest week, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 79 records.

  22. v32Sep 21, 202677 records / 40 sources

    Source-backed fields changed; the frozen snapshot contains 77 records.

  23. v31Sep 20, 202677 records / 40 sources

    +1 records; updated Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 77 records.

  24. v30Sep 19, 202676 records / 40 sources

    +2 records; updated Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 76 records.

  25. v29Sep 18, 202674 records / 40 sources

    +3 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 74 records.

  26. v28Sep 17, 202671 records / 40 sources

    +6 records; updated Latest week, Transactions, Median disclosed. The frozen snapshot contains 71 records.

  27. v27Sep 16, 202665 records / 40 sources

    +3 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 65 records.

  28. v26Sep 15, 202662 records / 40 sources

    +3 records; updated Latest week, Disclosed value, Transactions. The frozen snapshot contains 62 records.

  29. v25Sep 14, 202659 records / 40 sources

    Source-backed fields changed; the frozen snapshot contains 59 records.

  30. v24Sep 13, 202659 records / 40 sources

    Source-backed fields changed; the frozen snapshot contains 59 records.

Coverage note

This is a disclosed-capital ledger, not an estimate of total private-market activity. Currency conversion is intentionally not inferred. 162 named investors are currently represented in the underlying records.

Dataset ID
spd:capital-flow
Stable URL
/research/capital-flow
Cadence
Weekly
Version
v11
Coverage
2024-10-22/2026-08-28
Records
32
Fields
7
Updated
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Superpower AI Capital Ledger data records
DateTypeCompany / dealStage / statusAmountCurrencyValuation
2024-10-22acquisitionInflection AI / Boundarylessannounced———
2025-09-16fundingFigure exceeds $1 billion in Series C funding at $39 billion valuationSeries C1000000000.00USD39000000000.00
2026-02-27fundingOpenAI announces $110B in new investment—110000000000.00USD730000000000.00
2026-06-22fundingGroq raises $650 million in growth capitalgrowth capital650000000.00USD—
2026-08-06acquisitionAMD / Taalasannounced; pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals———
2026-08-14acquisitionSpaceX / xAIcompleted1250000000000.00——
2026-08-15fundingKling AI $2.8B Series D (reported)Series D2800000000.00USD—
2026-08-17fundingWispr Flow raises $280M Series BSeries B280000000.00USD2000000000.00
2026-08-17fundingGroq raises $350M Series ASeries A350000000.00USD—
2026-08-17acquisitionStripe / OpenRouterannounced7000000000.00USD—
2026-08-17fundingNVIDIA to invest in SB Energy's Ohio data-center buildout—1500000000.00USD—
2026-08-17acquisitionSpaceX / Cursorcompleted60000000000.00USD—
2026-08-18fundingEtched raises $700 million at a $21 billion valuation—700000000.00USD21000000000.00
2026-08-18fundingVelaura AI raises $110 million Series ASeries A110000000.00USD1000000000.00
2026-08-18fundingHiggsfield raises $400 million in Series B at $5.4 billion valuationSeries B400000000.00USD5400000000.00
2026-08-18acquisitionGoogle / Spirit Airlinespending approval10000000.00USD—
2026-08-20fundingNvidia invests $1 billion in Poolside alongside Model Factory licensing dealstrategic investment1000000000.00USD12000000000.00
2026-08-20fundingSilicon Data raises $30 million Series ASeries A30000000.00USD—
2026-08-21fundingStarcloud raises $250 million at $2.3 billion valuationSeries A extension250000000.00USD2300000000.00
2026-08-24acquisitionDescartes Systems Group / Tai Softwareannounced100000000.00USD—
2026-08-24acquisitionNavitas Semiconductor / Clarosannounced232800000.00USD—
2026-08-24fundingWATER raises $2.5 million—2500000.00USD—
2026-08-25fundingEmerald AI raises $150 million in Series A at $1.05 billion valuationSeries A150000000.00USD1050000000.00
2026-08-26fundingLegato raises $12 million to develop AI-powered hearing glasses—12000000.00USD—
2026-08-26acquisitionCheck-Cap / MBody AI Corp.completed———
2026-08-26acquisitionMERGE / Brado’s Insight and Digital practicesannounced———
2026-08-26fundingAlice raises $140 million financing round—140000000.00USD800000000.00
2026-08-26acquisitionGlobus Medical / Higgs Boson Healthannounced———
2026-08-26fundingMara raises $7 million for autonomous counter-drone platform—7000000.00USD—
2026-08-27acquisitionNvidia / Hugging Facereported12900000000.00USD—
2026-08-27fundingLambda closes $926 million GPU infrastructure debt facilitySenior secured term loan B / asset-backed debt financing926000000.00USD—
2026-08-28fundingStability AI raises $76 million Series BSeries B76000000.00USD—

Measurement technique

How to read this report

  1. 01Only verified funding and acquisition records are included.
  2. 02Weekly editions run Monday through Sunday in UTC. The newest week can be partial and is labeled by its Monday start date.
  3. 03Aggregate values include USD-denominated disclosed transactions only; undisclosed transactions remain in record counts.
  4. 04Announcement dates are used unless a more precise transaction date is available. Named investors are deduplicated across the underlying record set.

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Evidence

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